In message <20040108202706.GA505@antioche.eu.org>, you write: 

-> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:17:22PM -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
-> > 
-> > I scanned for superblocks with vim and read through all the deleted
-> > directories and files... is there any way to reactivate the metadata
-> > with fsdb quickly?
-> 
-> Not quickly. I'd probably require an automated tool, but I don't know how
-> to do it.
-> The main problem is directory entries. We need to recover dp->d_namelen,
-> and I can't see how to do this safely in an automated way.
-> Once we have that we need tools to scan directories entries, and for each
-> of them mark the inode and associated blocks as non-free.

Doesn't TCT (coroner's toolkit) do some of this?

--rafal

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Rafal Boni                                                     rafal@pobox.com
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